Time for action – installing the Autom8 plugin

  1. Logon to your Cacti installation as the root user.
  2. Change to the plugins directory of your Cacti installation:
    cd /var/www/html/cacti/plugins
  3. Download the Autom8 plugin. You can find the download link at http://docs.cacti.net/plugin:autom8. Unfortunately v0.33 is not compatible with Cacti 0.8.7g so we have to use a beta version available from the Autom8 thread in the Cacti forums (http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=36493):
    wget -O autom8-v0.35b6.tgz  http://forums.cacti.net/download/file.php?id=21363
  4. Extract the plugin:
    tar -xzvf autom8-v0.35b6.tgz
  5. Do not yet install and enable the plugin.

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